Google Reaches Settlement in EU Antitrust Probe

Company Agrees to Give Comparable Prominence to Rivals' Services

Rolfe Winkler

Google Inc. showed on Wednesday that it has developed a simple mantra to skirt antitrust trouble: Don't litigate, negotiate.

Under a tentative deal with European Commission regulators, Google agreed to tweak the way it presents search results in Europe to address concerns that it is abusing its dominance in online search to favor its own services at the expense of rivals.

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